The r8712u driver from the staging area has stopped working in Fedora 25. This driver supports (among others) my emergency USB DLink DWA-130 adapter that I use when the laptop's built in wireless (Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac) is "too advanced" to connect to some old wireless router. The r8712u driver works just fine in Fedora 24 and it seems to be substantially unchanged. I ran 'modinfo r8712u' on both F24 and F25 and diff'd them. The only differences are in the filesystem locations and labelling. There was no other substantial difference. I've monitored dmesg while plugging the DLink adapter in and it's apparent that 1 - it is detected with proper vendor and product IDs. 2 - the r8712u module is selected and registered. 3 - the correct firmware is loaded from rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin 4 - an endless stream of messages ensues: [ 262.524809] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready and, of course, the new interface never becomes available to NetworkManager. What's gone wrong? Why does the same driver work in Fedora 24 but not in Fedora 25? How do I regain operability? -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad@xxxxxxxx www.datix.us _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
